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The word excommunication is from the Latin, ''ex'' meaning out of, and ''communio'' or ''communicatio'' meaning communion, thus ‘exclusion from the communion’.
For serious acts, such as unrepentant [[heresy]], the church pronounces an [[anathema]] as a means of expulsion that leaves the person outside of the Church and to his own devices.
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